Feedback of the Week [Week 41]

This is the third “Feedback of the Week” where me and Chris highlight valuable Feedback.

It’s been a while since the last FotW. This was mainly because I was having a hard time finding valuable, underrated Feedback.

You might notice that a lot of the issues mentioned this week are kind of small annoyances, but these small things are what makes a system feel comfortable.

If you have any suggestions, feel free to post them in the Comments.

So, let’s get going:

1. Let us adjust the transparency of the Start menu

“it is fixed how much start, taskbar and action center is transparent. I think I would be nice to have an option to adjust transparency like in windows 7. for example I would like to have more transparent start, taskbar and action center than it is by default without messing with the registers.“

6. Ability to individually assign an application to a given soundcard.

“For example, I could want to assign background music (groove) to the sound card plugged to the house sound system while keeping the application I’m using on the sound card link to speakers in front of me.“

Editors Note:This would also be much appreciated for gaming, as some might have an equalizer for their music, but don’t want their Skype audio to go through that.

7. Give the option up front to overwrite/skip duplicates when copying files.

“When I am copying large amounts of files, I would like Explorer to prompt me to say “if there are conflicts, how do you want to handle them” in front of the copy instead of waiting to hit a conflict to prompt. I’ve gone to copy a large amount of files, walked away, and come back only to find the process stalled due to a conflict prompt.[…]“

11. Better transition when swiping down to close in tablet mode

“Right now when you swipe down to close an app in tablet mode, the app stays the exact same size until you get really close to the bottom, then it just jumps to a smaller size. There should be a gradual transition to better indicate to unfamiliar users what this gesture does, and to make tablet mode look better and act more natural“

Editors Note:This is part of a larger problem. People don’t know how to use Windows, because all of the new paradigms are not explained anywhere.

12. Allow us to rearrange the taskbar previews.

“When hovering over the taskbar item of processes that have been minimized, the user is shown a preview of those in the order they were ran. The issue with this is the user cannot rearrange them in an order meaningful to them. […]“

Editors Note: x This, and a lot of other customizations are already provided by a third-party application, 7+ Taskbar Tweaker. They should be standard though.